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obesity doesn't put as tremendous a strain on the health system, but I figured this would be obvious look at the total ICU numbers before COVID (obesity still

obesity doesn't put as tremendous a strain on the health system, but I figured this would be obvious look at the total ICU numbers before COVID (obesity still existed then), versus over the past year, to see the difference in strain also, your unsubstantiated claim that "the contagion argument for mandates is shaky too" seems to be itself shaky, as herd immunity is not required to make a nonzero positive impact which is good, because a nonzero percent of the population has tried their hardest to screw up every single covid preventative countermeasure, just so they can say 'oh, guess we didn't/can't achieve herd immunity, so now we should do nothing like we said and did all along'

CryptoPunk 5y ago
A huge proportion of ICU cases have obesity as the dominant risk factor, INCLUDING COVID. And the costs of treating obesity related illnesses, like many heart disease, cancer and diabetes cases, are enormous, and dwarf the costs relating to COVID. Even in COVID's first year in the human population, when it spread like wildfire, heart disease and cancer killed far more people, and obesity is a contributing factor in a significant fraction of cases of these illnesses, particularly heart disease. >>as herd immunity is not required to make a nonzero positive impact Without herd immunity, the virus continues to circulate, until every one has contracted it. After they have contracted a COVID infection, they acquire far stronger immunity than provided by vaccination.